Birthday poem · December 19Major Snow, the 21st solar term: heavier snow.
Birth character
青 qīng · green-blue
青 means blue-green, the colour of new plants and clear sky.
青山橫北郭
“Green mountains bar the northern sky” — Li Bai, ‘Farewell to a Friend’
Other dates with this poem: August 20
The poem
“Gazing at Tianmen Mountain” 望天門山
- 天門中斷楚江開Tianmen splits in two where the Chu River breaks through;
- 碧水東流至此回the blue water flows east and swirls back here.
- 兩岸青山相對出Green hills on either bank rise up to face each other;
- 孤帆一片日邊來one lone sail comes from the edge of the sun.
Why this poem
Li Bai sails past Tianmen Mountain: the river and the green cliffs on both banks.
This day in the Chinese calendar
Solar term: Major Snow.